Paul McCartney Said a Famous Poem Inspired John Lennon to Write The Beatles ...
Paul McCartney said John Lennon had intentions of being a writer. In the same vein, Paul said John drew inspiration from a famous poem while writing The Beatles’ “Strawberry Fields Forever.” Paul said another Beatles song was influenced by the same poem.
In the 1997 book Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now, Paul discussed John’s relationship to literature. “John had done a little poem that [his aunt] had framed in the kitchen,” Paul recalled. “It was nice: ‘A house where there is love …’ John had writing aspirations.”
Paul discussed the first book of short stories John wrote. “At first he was writing what turned out later to be In His Own Write,” Paul said. “He would show me what he’d been typing. I would sometimes help him with it. We would sit around giggling, just saying puns really, that’s basically what it was; ‘In the early owls of the Morecambe,’ I remember, ‘a cup o-teeth’ was one section that was in the typewriter when I was around there. But I would like all that and I was very impressed.”
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